>>>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de> writes:
Ralf> On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 12:53:40AM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote:
>> (By the way, have you checked that replacing get_sectorsize by an
>> empty routine, and specifying a -b option, works well?)
>>
>> (Do you know which disks have unusual sector size? So far I had
>> only seen reports on a Fujitsu 640 MB. Have you seen other
>> sectorsizes than 512, 1024, 2048 on non-IBM disks?)
Ralf> Afair there is some older type of exchangable disk with 256
Ralf> bytes sectors made by Syquest. I also remember SCSI disks that
Ralf> can be reformated with 4kb sectors.
I used to have an old Seagate 1GB 5 1/4" SCSI disk at CERN which had a
256 byte sector size. It's hopefully in the scrapyard now.
Jes
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